Quotes About Communication

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

Ngotho had never known where the other son had gone to. Now he understood. He wanted to tell of his own son: he longed to say, 'You took him away from me'. But he kept quiet. Only he thought Mr Howlands should not complain. It had been his war.

Everything owns a sound, loud or soft. When sound hits a thing, it comes back an echo. Mumbi said -Everything sends back a sound, however soft. If you listen to an echo with care, you can tell where it is coming from. The ear is the eye of the soul. It sorts out the sound and the echo and tells us what makes the sound and where it is coming from

It's a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Is it Locke who says that it is one thing to show a man he is in error and another to convince him of the truth? You have shown me my error. Pray reveal the whole truth.

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

the Internet is merely 'the modern public square'

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

That's the thing about boys. Maybe just Irish boys. Boys have No Go Areas, they have an entire geography of places you can't go because if you do they'll crack open, they'll fall apart and you won't be able to put them back together, not ever. Girls know this. We know. Even love can't reach some places.

Some things do not bear telling. I think my father knew this. I think he knew how words can sometimes flatten the deepest emotions or pin them like wild butterflies stunned out of magnificent flight, flimsiest souvenirs of what moved and coloured air like silk. Better to imagine it.

When I was twelve years old god spoke to my father for the first time.

The rosary was said in most houses then, but in few midnight gardens. The version that night was murmured and swift. By native decree, and the proven truth that no nation spoke faster, punctuation in prayer had been long ago dispensed with, breathless delivery was acceptable to the Lord who could pause, parse and separate the string of prayers in His own time.

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

Aló, ¿con la Casa de la Cultura? - Sí conchetumadre.

el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro

creo más en el verbo que en la acción pero no se me juzgue por lo que digo sino por lo que dejo de decir

I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.

If I had to ask him to ask me, it wasn't going to work as an expression of concern. Like when you ask someone if they love you - if you have to ask them, they don't. Or not enough. Not the way you want them to.

Talking hurts the way hurting doesn't.

know lots of doctors who think everything would be fine if it weren't for the patients.

If you call the day after, you're maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you're calling on the first day. If they're going to call, people call on the third day.

I don't want Claud to tell the world how he feels about me. Television is so seductive: people tell things to the camera they'd never dream of telling their best friends